Clinical Factors Influencing Psychological Adjustment in Patients with Cardiovascular Pathology (on the Model of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension and Atrial Fibrillation)

Authors

  • Anatoly N. Alehin Author
  • Irina O. Chumakova Author
  • Eugenia V. Andreeva Author
  • Elena A. Trifonova Author

Abstract

Results of emotional status, attitude towards disease and health-related quality of life assessment in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension and atrial fibrillation are presented. Quality of life is significantly impaired, most in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. However patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension, their physical limitations notwithstanding, were better adjusted to illness, than patients with atrial fibrillation. These differences may be explained by characteristics of clinical course of the diseases and their social consequences.

Author Biographies

  • Anatoly N. Alehin

    ctor of medical sciences, professor, head of the department of clinical psychology

  • Irina O. Chumakova
    Graduate student of clinical psychology
  • Eugenia V. Andreeva
    Graduate student of clinical psychology
  • Elena A. Trifonova

    Candidate of psychological sciences, associate professor of clinical psychology, Russian State Pedagogical University named after AI Herzen, Researcher, laboratory of clinical psychology and psychodiagnostic of the St. Petersburg Research psychoneurological Institute of the V.M. Bekhterev

Issue

No. 1 (2012)

Section

Bulletin of the South Ural State University. Series “Psychology” includes the following sections: